# Spider-Man Rakdos Mayhem

- Format: Standard (casual 60-card constructed), intended for two players.
- Colors: black and red.
- List: [spm-rakdos-mayhem.csv](spm-rakdos-mayhem.csv). Sideboard: [sideboard.csv](sideboard.csv).
- Guide (Spanish): [guide_spm-rakdos-mayhem.html](guide_spm-rakdos-mayhem.html).
- Composition: 23 creatures, 14 other spells, 23 lands.
- Sources: cards recorded in the Spider-Man CSV, two Goblin-town from The
  Hobbit opening, plus basic lands.
- Status: proposal, not a record of cards removed from available inventory.

This collection-limited deck deliberately includes the SPE printing of Green
Goblin, Nemesis because the intended format is casual. It is
not a tournament Standard legality claim. It shares no nonbasic cards with
[Selesnya Web-Slinging](../spm-selesnya-web-slinging/README.md), so both
proposals can be assembled at the same time.

## Game plan

1. Start with Masked Meower, Hobgoblin or Scarlet Spider. Preserve a mayhem card
   in hand when a discard outlet is available.
2. Discard Scarlet Spider, Swarm, Electro's Bolt or Carnage to pay for Pumpkin
   Bombardment, Romantic Rendezvous, Masked Meower or another engine, then cast
   that card from the graveyard for its mayhem cost.
3. Turn every discard into pressure with Hobgoblin, Green Goblin, Nemesis and
   Green Goblin, Revenant. Shriek removes a blocker and rewards removal.
4. Rebuild with Carnage or finish through flying and menace. Venom's Hunger
   costs {2}{B} with a Villain out and removes the best blocker; Scorpion's
   Sting is the one instant-speed answer.

## Opening hands

Keep two or three lands with both colors, an early creature, a discard outlet
and at least one card that benefits from being discarded. Pumpkin Bombardment
plus Scarlet Spider or Swarm is an ideal start. Avoid hands made entirely of
four- and five-mana legends or hands where Romantic Rendezvous would force the
discard of the only threat.

## Important interactions

- Mayhem changes how a discarded card may be cast, but it does not change its
  timing. Scarlet Spider, Electro's Bolt and Carnage normally wait for an empty
  stack during a main phase; Swarm can be cast at instant speed because it has
  flash.
- Pumpkin Bombardment discards while paying its additional cost. After it
  resolves and the stack is empty, the discarded mayhem card can be cast.
- Hobgoblin receives +2/+0 for every card discarded, including land cards.
  Green Goblin, Nemesis instead puts counters on Goblins for nonlands and makes
  tapped Treasures for lands.
- Green Goblin, Revenant counts every card discarded earlier in the turn, not
  only the card discarded by its attack trigger.
- Carnage may return a creature with mana value three or less. That creature
  must attack when able and is sacrificed only if it deals combat damage to a
  player.
- Rocket-Powered Goblin Glider (sideboard) attaches itself only when cast from
  the graveyard. From the hand it costs {3} and still needs {2} to equip, so it
  is usually better as discard fodder.
- Goblin-town enters tapped and can later be sacrificed at sorcery speed to put
  two +1/+1 counters on Hobgoblin, Ultimate Green Goblin or either Green Goblin.
  Do not activate it if losing the land prevents a necessary mayhem follow-up.

## Sideboard

The cut cards stay in the deck box ([sideboard.csv](sideboard.csv)): two
Shriek, Treblemaker (swap in for Scorpion's Sting or Venom's Hunger against
boards of small blockers), Rocket-Powered Goblin Glider (against decks without
fliers), Prison Break (slower games where recursion matters) and Risky Research
(for Scorpion's Sting when the opponent has little to kill). Two Venom's Hunger
replaced the Glider and one Shriek in the main deck.


## List conventions

The CSV uses the same 24 columns, in the same order, as the collection's precon
exports. Nonbasic metadata comes from
[the Spider-Man opening](<../../../booster-pulls/Marvel's%20Spider-Man%20(SPM)/cards.csv>).
This casual list may use SPM, SPE and MAR rows from that file; Goblin-town comes
from [the Hobbit opening](<../../../booster-pulls/The%20Hobbit%20(HOB)/cards.csv>). Selected copies
never exceed recorded quantities or the four-copy limit. Regular copies are
preferred when available; Green Goblin, Nemesis uses its
recorded foil SPE printing. Prices come from the export, not a fresh market
quote, and `Value_USD` is recalculated for the selected copies.

Enough basic lands are assumed available. Their quantities use
`Quantity_Regular` as a planning convention, not a verified finish. Printing,
condition, price and image fields remain blank. `sideboard.csv` uses the same
schema and is rendered as a separate section by the build.